Who's crime is it anyways?
On the curious case of Brock Turner: There are a disturbing number of posts covering and encouraging the people who are dead set on harassing him personally. And somehow, otherwise "compassionate" people - the same ones who showed support for anti-bullying and anti-harassment messaging, who supported movements about equal treatment under the law, and so on - are sharing and praising these posts. You seem to want them to keep pushing. But to what end? What is a victory in that situation? Does he relent by asking to change his own sentence? Or does he just eventually kill himself? How can people preach compassion for some, then pick up the torches and pitchforks?
The Brock Turner trial did not have the just outcome we believe it should have, but he went through the process, and someone else decided the outcome we're all so frustrated with. THAT part of the problem didn't arise from Brock himself, but from the system. And our voices have been heard. If this kid EVER tried to pull something like that again, there would be a 0% chance he would not be convicted to the full extent. We no longer trust this judge's capabilities, and won't allow him to try cases of this nature anymore. That's how it works.
Not every case is going to go the way of public opinion. This isn't frontier justice anymore. If we don't like how it turned out, we had better find a more constructive way to channel our frustration because this won't do anything to help. It is not for us to take matters into our own hands whenever we don't FEEL that something was fair. If this kid dies while you're egging these people on, that blood is on your hands, too. Is this how you want YOUR justice served?
None of us like this kid. None of us are happy with what happened. And none of us are going to fix it by succumbing to the mob mentality. It is truly a sad state of affairs when people can throw out "likes" for compassion, but forget how to show it as soon as it stops being easy.
The Brock Turner trial did not have the just outcome we believe it should have, but he went through the process, and someone else decided the outcome we're all so frustrated with. THAT part of the problem didn't arise from Brock himself, but from the system. And our voices have been heard. If this kid EVER tried to pull something like that again, there would be a 0% chance he would not be convicted to the full extent. We no longer trust this judge's capabilities, and won't allow him to try cases of this nature anymore. That's how it works.
Not every case is going to go the way of public opinion. This isn't frontier justice anymore. If we don't like how it turned out, we had better find a more constructive way to channel our frustration because this won't do anything to help. It is not for us to take matters into our own hands whenever we don't FEEL that something was fair. If this kid dies while you're egging these people on, that blood is on your hands, too. Is this how you want YOUR justice served?
None of us like this kid. None of us are happy with what happened. And none of us are going to fix it by succumbing to the mob mentality. It is truly a sad state of affairs when people can throw out "likes" for compassion, but forget how to show it as soon as it stops being easy.